Joe Biden ready for debate with Donald Trump

United States President Joe Biden said on Friday he would participate in a debate with Donald Trump, his Republican rival for the November elections.

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These were President Biden's clearest statements on the possibility of a presidential debate. President Biden had not shown willingness to debate with Mr. Trump, saying last month that such a thing would depend on the former president's behaviour.

In recent weeks, Mr. Trump has challenged Mr. Biden to confront the debate, offering to debate with current Democrat President <x0kurdo and elsewhere”.

Earlier this month, Mr. Trump's two main advisers of the campaign team sent a letter to an independent commission that normally stipulates such events, demanding the acceleration of the debate calendar and the realisation of more than 3 usually held.

Tens of media organisations have called on candidates to publicly pledge a debate against each other.

The statement suggested that the expenditures to organise debates on the current race be met by the non-party Commission on Presidential Discourses, as has happened in any election cycle since 1988.

Mr. Beden leads in support of registered voters at 41 percent in the face of 37 percent of Mr. Trump, according to a poll conducted by the Ipso polling company and Reuters news agency earlier this month.

Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump faced each other in two presidential television debates during the 2020 campaign./ VOA